Sentence examples for upon being struck from inspiring English sources

I had gravitated toward the subject upon being struck by how a sophisticated, democratic society had made next to no use of imprisonment.

Upon being struck by the gun's firing pin, the percussion cap detonates and ignites the propellant; the resulting rapid expansion of gases in the gun's closed firing chamber propels the bullet forward at high velocity down the bore.

By the 1860s, percussion caps, which detonate upon being struck a sharp blow by the firing pin of a gun, had been incorporated into a metal cartridge case containing all the components for a complete round that could be used in breech-loading rifles.

Avoid surface inclusions, however, since these may make your stone more likely to chip or break upon being struck.

This is the machine on which your life could depend upon if you are struck down by swine flu.

The decibel of the objections is evidence that he's struck upon truth.

Upon being introduced, he was struck by her laugh and her smile, he recalled.

His intent was to photograph the daily life of people living at the base, but, upon his arrival, he was struck by the Adélie penguins that animated the peninsula.

Couldn't this father, too, be a naturalist?) Upon rereading, however, one is struck by the stories' integrity — and how different these girls and women are from who they were or who they may later become: ambitious adolescent; earnest professional; scarlet woman; beleaguered second wife.

"Almost immediately upon getting there I was struck by how silent and still the woods were and, what was more eerie, was when I got to this small tree with rust red leaves, everything beyond appeared totally drained of colour," Simon told BBC Earth.

Greeted with a wall of Roe Ethridge, one is struck upon entry by how dreary the gallery looks.